The inscription of gesture: inward migrations in dance / Sally Ann Ness -- Physical graffiti west : African American gang walks and semiotic practice / Susan A. Phillips -- Gesture and abstraction / Blake Stimson -- Remembering kinesthesia : an inquiry into embodied cultural knowledge / Deidre Sklar -- Digesture : gesture and inscription in experimental cinema / Akira Mizuta Lippit -- Miming signing : Henri Michaux and the writing body / Carrie Noland -- Ghosting : the performance and migration of cinematic gesture, focusing on Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Good men, good women / Lesley Stern -- The gestures of Bharata Natyam : migrating into diasporic contemporary Indian dance / Ketu H. Katrak -- Mimique / Mark Franko